on earth would you need that much Astrophage?

Nobody told him?

He has no clearance.

Please stand up, Dr. Grace.

Stand up.

I hereby grant you top-secret clearance

to all information pertaining to Project Hail Mary.

[softly] What's Project Hail Mary?

[Stratt] All right.

The sun is not the only star dying.

There is a clear pattern of infection.

Every star was infected by its neighbor except one.

Tau Ceti?

That's right. 11.9 light years away.

It is uninfected

despite being well within the cluster of infected stars.

Why? Tell him.

[all in unison] We don't know!

Which is why we decided to build a ship

to go there and find out.